Adapter is a Free Everything-to-Everything Transcoding App for Mac and Windows

Ever since VisualHub was discontinued, there's been a dearth of freeware transcoding apps on the Mac. I've since recommended MPEG Streamclip, but a true "everything to everything" program hasn't been available in the free arena. As of a week ago you can grab the new version of Apple Compressor for $50, but they didn't update the program to 64-bit or even change the interface from the last version (which I was never a fan of). Thus newcomer Adapter, while still in beta, looks promising:

The application also offers some other interesting features, like flash video downloading from the internet (just input a URL). The list of compatible file formats:

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On an unrelated note, the logo puzzles me... looks cool, but then there's that weird curve and spike at the bottom. Totally breaks the flow, looks like a mistake... but it's all over their website so I guess it's intentional.

well... almost everything. I don't see .webm in the list which I had to convert to recently for an html5 project. Nice to have this to convert to other similar formats though like ogg which I also had to deliver.

It's based on ffmpeg and can't convert Prores. Still looking for a Converter that gives me the quality of Handbrake but can handle Prores-Files. Any idea? h246-conversion on Streamclip does't even look close to Handbrake.

Looks a pretty useful tool. I am still in awe of Super (here - http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html), which has handled pretty much everything I wanted (even stupid random requests from clients for changing wmv's to swf and things like that). It handles batch conversions and everything too. Its just a bit overwhelming (the GUI is for people who know what they are doing, which, I imagine, is a lot of the people on here!). Their website is pretty horrible too, but worth it. Quick Media Converter (here - http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/) is also pretty handy, and has some good presets for things I just need to change over quickly. Will look into Adapter a bit more though, might be a good option.

Thanks breeze for the zamzar link but, I think I'd rather have my own 'in-computer' app to convert.
I downloaded MPEG Streamclip but, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't have a wmv output option.
Can anyone suggest an app that converts qt's to wmv?

I still use, and love VisualHub. But I'm still using Leopard and I've heard it breaks when you upgrade to Snow. What a shame, never really got a satisfying answer to why this fantastic program went dark.

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